A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
People often ask me why I work with flowers. My simple answer is; Because I care. We can't change life, but we… — James Thornbrook Copy Share Image
“In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, “climax” ecosystem, usually tall… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Slow down and reflect on what's important to you in this life as sometimes we are going too fast to smell the… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“... every flower seems to burn by itself, softly, purely in the misty beds; and how she loved the grey-white moths spinning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
“October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it… — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth"… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which… — William Rothenstein Copy Share Image
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
“And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.” — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
My wardrobe is like a garden oh, I don't know how I've got the gall! My wardrobe is just like a wardrobe… — Attila the Stockbroker Copy Share Image
“You cannot be anything other than who you are. Trees don’t stand around comparing heights. Flowers don’t compare colours. There is a… — Stephen Shaw Copy Share Image
A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis,… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else. — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Our home, just like our garden, evolves. We experiment, try out different things and new colors until we feel content. Try to… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured… — Eduard Buchner Copy Share Image
The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
“I used to pick wildflowers to bring cheer indoors. Prudence would turn right around and throw them out. Said, “If God wanted… — Leah Weiss Copy Share Image
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world. — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rain makes all things beautiful. The grass & flowers 2. If rain makes all things beautiful why doesnt it rain on you? — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me. — Caroline Corr Copy Share Image
“If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
